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EMMA HAUGHTON chats with Paul Burke about her debut adult thriller THE DARK , 24 hour night, why writing YA fiction was a good grounding for crime and the dentist. THE DARK : In the most inhospitable environment - cut off from the rest of the world - there's a killer on the loose. A&E doctor Kate North has been knocked out of her orbit by a personal tragedy. So when she's offered the...

Episode 5: LIFTING THE CURTAIN - Publishing gurus: Katherine Armstrong (Simon & Schuster) Miranda Jewess (Viper) & literary agent, David Headley (Goldsboro/Capital Crime) discuss what’s hot, trends and where the future lies while Victoria tries to keep up. https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/ https://serpentstail.com/ https://www.goldsborobooks.com/  VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: http...

STEVE CAVANAGH chats to Paul Burke about his new Eddie Flynn novel THE DEVIL'S  ADVOCATE, the death penalty, #BlackLivesMatter, Ross Macdonald and Clarence Darrow's cigar. THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE : A DEADLY PROSECUTOR - They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States. A TWISTED RITUALISTIC...

PAUL BURKE REVIEWS: Crime Time, NB Magazine, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network and Crime Time FM shares his thoughts on some of the new Crime, mystery and thriller releases. WILL CARVER  THE BERESFORD PJ WOLFSON    BODIES ARE DUST JOHN SANFORD  THE OLD MAN'S PLACE JOE THOMAS  BRAZILIAN PSYCHO AA DHAND    THE BLOOD DIVIDE SA COSBY    RAZORBLADE TEARS HANSJÓRG SCHNEIDER  T...

JOE THOMAS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel BRAZILIAN PSYCHO , São Paulo, the craft of writing, Harold 'Tanky' Challenor and how a flatscreen TV started a deadly riot. " Brazilian Psycho is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with American Tabloid, The Power of the Dog and A Brief History of Seven Killings and confi...

HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and novel of the year - We Begin at the End, Crime fiction and the Booker prize and a special word from Brian McGilloway. Watchlist: Razorblade Tears -  SA Cosby (Barry Forshaw, Maxim Jakubowski, Craig Sisterson) Littl...

Description Episode 4: WHERE THE HEART IS- Chris Whitaker ( WE BEGIN AT THE END ) & Dominic Nolan ( AFTER DARK ) discuss creating strong characters, getting dialogue right and the importance of place. While Victoria shows herself up with her rubbish geography and why she’d like to be stuck on an island with Robinson Crusoe. We Begin at the End won the CWA Gold Dagger 2021 and the Theakston&apo...

John Vercher THREE-FIFTHS interviewed by Paul Burke. John Vercher is a writer currently living in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He holds a Bachelor's in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program. His fiction has appeared on Akashic Books' Mondays are Murder and Fri-SciFi. and he is a cont...

OLIVIA KIERNAN chats with Paul Burke about her new novel THE MURDER BOX , Frankie Sheehan, Ireland, police procedurals and finding out what kind of person you are during covid period. THE MURDER BOX : At first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game's co...

The latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW - LINE OF DUTY to Rupert Davies' MAIGRET. Also an interview with KIM NEWMAN about his novel due in November SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT, also horror, Hollywood and modelling villains on Elon Musk. SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT : Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he shou...

  THE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATE BEST CRIME NOVELS 2010-2020 CHAIR: BARRY FORSHAW PANEL: AYO ONATADE, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, LAURA WILSON, VICTORIA SELMAN & PAUL BURKE Episode produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh CRIME TIME Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2...

Episode 4: ADVENTURES WITH FRIENDS- Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne) & M.W Craven (Washington Poe) discuss series fiction, keeping track of your characters and why they’d like to be stranded on a desert island with Harry Bosch. RABBIT HOLE - MARK BILLINGHAM DEAD GROUND - MW CRAVEN VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmana...

LAURA LIPPMAN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel DREAM GIRL , Baltimore, #Me TOO and racism and why being a writer is a little like playing for a living. DREAM GIRL : Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a wo...

VASEEM KHAN talks to Paul Burke about his new book THE DYING DAY , Persis Wadia, Ashwin Chopra, Indian independence, modern day Mumbai and an inherited elephant. THE DYING DAY : for over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy , has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the...

GERARD BRENNAN talks to Paul Burke about his new novel SHOT , feisty PSNI detective Shannon McNulty, the writer's lot, Northern Ireland Arts Council and music. SHOT : You can't choose your family -aa major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the forc...

Episode 2: WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?- Sarah Vaughan ( ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL ) & Harriet Tyce ( BLOOD ORANGE ) - discuss courtroom dramas, the lure of the wig and gown, and why British writers shouldn’t be talking about the gavel. Victoria takes note and re-records her introduction. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanau...

HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the THEAKSTONS CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL, the CWA DAGGER AWARDS, and Victoria's next novel with Quercus. PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for magazines/websites including Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. VICTORIA SELMAN...

Barry’s Blu-rays Special.  As well as a new to video films round up  Barry talks to MICHAEL MACKENZIE about his novels, Italian cinema, The Years of Lead, Dario Argento, and up-coming Arrow Films DVDs. MICHAEL MACKENZIE is the McIlvanney Prize-nomined author of THE LIBRARY MURDERS , CRUEL SUMMER and IN THE SILENCE and is an Arrow Films Video senior producer. BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the...

IMRAN MAHMOOD chats to Paul Burke about his new novel I KNOW WHAT I SAW , being a barrister and the state of British justice, his first novel YOU DON'T KNOW ME on TV and memory. IMRAN MAHMOOD is a practicing barrister with almost 30 years' experience fighting cases in court. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. His debut novel You Don't Know M...

JANE THYNNE (CJ CAREY) talks to Paul Burke about her new thriller WIDOWLAND , the personal inspiration behind the novel, Philip Kerr, feminism and editing history. WIDOWLAND To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year - but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great B...

JOE THOMAS, author of BRAZILIAN PSYCHO chats to DAVID PEACE about his new novel TOKYO REDUX , the final part of his Tokyo trilogy, also why David's fiction focuses on real events, how his writing has developed over the years, key influences such as Derek Raymond and Jean-Patrick Manchette, crime fiction as social critique and living in Tokyo. TOKYO REDUX Tokyo, 1949, President Shimoyama, Head...

LEE DURKEE chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER published in the UK by Oldcastle Books. In a brutally honest interview Lee talks about his fictional driver, Lou, and the life of a taxi driver in North Mississippi, the enemy - Uber, racism and Shakespeare. THE LAST TAXI DRIVER is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his j...

On the Sofa with Victoria: Sarah Pinborough & Alex North Episode : ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN- Sarah Pinborough ( BEHIND HER EYES ) & Alex North ( THE WHISPER MAN ) discuss supernatural crime crossovers, Scooby Doo and ‘that’ ending. Victoria keeps calling Alex ‘Steve’. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/...

James Wolff talks about his new novel HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY, growing up in the Middle East, spy fiction and the meaning of treachery. HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY : Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of security breaches... and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The on...

SAIMA MIR author of THE KHAN talks to Paul Burke about her debut novel, her unforgettable characters Jia and Akbar Khan, being a journalist, Bradford, family, sexism, racism and how to navigate the world. THE KHAN : Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organi...